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Demotivators (image-heavy)

New thread for bitter irony! It turns out that motivators bring out the dark streak in my sense of humor. I don't want to kill teh awesome silly vibe in the other thread so I'm moving the sarcastic demotivators over here. Larger versions are available by clicking on them.

Update! I made a banner for giving proper credit to Rob and Jamie for all of the derivative works in this thread. I think that I've covered everything needed to abide by the Creative Commons License that they're using. If you use it then please make it a hyperlink to the first page of the comic like I did, otherwise I also have a larger version that you can use that displays both URLs.

Last edited by Scientivore; 2007-07-19 at 04:37 AM.
Reason: despoilerized with small previews

Re: Demotivators (image-heavy)

W00t! Glad you like them.

The title of "Soul-Sucking Drudgery" is in Big Bloke BB, a free Blambot title font that just looked appropriate somehow, and the line is in Copperplate Gothic Bold. For "Money", I switched it around; the title is in Copperplate Gothic Bold since it seems like a banker's font and the line is in Spirit Medium (another free Blambot title font). I have a feeling that it says something about me that I used the name of an obscure font to create a dual-meaning hidden pun in a demotivator remixed from a fantasy webcomic. Possibly just "I'm a geek!"

For my non-demotivator at the top of the other thread, the title "Crap" is in I Want My TTR! Expanded. I'm not sure which is more surprising: that I had a font that kind of looks like smears of filth? or that I found a use for it? The line is in Biondi, another small caps serif font like Copperplate Gothic.

Re: Demotivators (image-heavy)

I present the first of my Lessons of Erfworld: Distraction. With it, I spin the dial so far away from cynicism that it goes right past wide-eyed innocence and comes back around on the other side...at disturbing imagery. Hahaha! You have no chance to survive make your time.

Last edited by Scientivore; 2007-07-19 at 12:57 AM.
Reason: shrank a little and despoilerized

Re: Demotivators (image-heavy)

Originally Posted by Scientivore

I present the first of my Lessons of Erfworld: Distraction. With it, I spin the dial so far away from cynicism that it goes right past wide-eyed innocence and comes back around on the other side...at disturbing imagery. Hahaha! You have no chance to survive make your time.

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i believe this belongs in the other thread.

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Re: Demotivators (image-heavy)

Originally Posted by SteveMB

Same here, it seems: ("Persuasion" follows)

YES. VERY YES.

This is going straight into the background folder.

Alignments are objective. Right and wrong are not.Good: Will act to prevent harm to others even at personal cost.Evil: Will seek personal benefit even if it causes harm to others.Law: General, universal, and consistent trump specific, local, and inconsistent.Chaos: Specific, local, and inconsistent trump general, universal, and consistent.

Re: Demotivators (image-heavy)

"Well, officer, he seemed like such a nice quiet fellow when I last met him running the registration table at Conterpoint...."

Originally Posted by Scientivore

I present the first of my Lessons of Erfworld: Distraction. With it, I spin the dial so far away from cynicism that it goes right past wide-eyed innocence and comes back around on the other side...at disturbing imagery. Hahaha! You have no chance to survive make your time.

I await the next lesson with some trepidation, er, interest....

Last edited by SteveMB; 2007-07-20 at 02:28 PM.
Reason: Added reply without double-post

Re: Demotivators (image-heavy)

Originally Posted by Vondre

EDIT - De-spoiler'd the pics, because nobody else is hiding them, and modified the pics to put the artist info on them.

Just a general note: If your pic is really wide, it should be spoiler-tagged so it doesn't force people's browser windows to widen to accommodate it (requiring side-scrolling to read the page, which is a nuisance). Yours should be OK, but anything wider than that should probably be spoilered.

Re: Demotivators (image-heavy)

Oops. Most of mine are still OK, but I'll go back and tag the horizontal-format motivational parodies (480 pixels)

Edit: After doing some tweaks and font changes on my motivators/demotivators, I reduced the final size slightly (to 320x400), so they fit within a 400-pixel limit in either orientation (and also because that's about as large as the images that came from the comic rather than Rob's blowup gallery can be enlarged without artifacts becoming obvious).

Re: Demotivators (image-heavy)

I haven't ever seen that rule enforced in an image thread. I think that it's unofficially treated like posting unhidden spoilers in a clearly-labeled spoiler thread. It certainly wouldn't hurt to follow it, though.